MT Military Museum seeking funds to restore WWII mural
The Montana Military Museum plans to host the First Special Service Force Association in 2022 to remember their service and mural at Fort Harrison.
By: Alexie Aguayo
and last updated 2021-04-09 12:17:56-04
FORT HARRISON â The Montana Military Museum plans to host the First Special Service Force Association in 2022 to remember their service and mural at Fort Harrison.
However, work needs to be done to the mural before showcasing it to the conference.
During World War II, the Fort Harrison Servicemen s Club was used by units who were training for combat at Fort Harrison. The building currently serves as a large training classroom and social space and hosts about 10,000 personnel every year.
The head of U.S. Veterans Affairs was joined Wednesday by Montanaâs congressional delegation as he capped off a three-day visit to the state at Fort Harrison VA Medical Center in Helena, where he heard from the public about their concerns and what the VA could be doing better.
Denis McDonough, appointed by President Joe Biden and confirmed to the post in February, said the Montana VA âdoes a lot of things really well ⦠and one of them is this team works well together.â
He noted a program in which nurses from the Montana VA system were deployed into community hospitals, which helps ensure continuity of care for veterans and prompt payment of bills.
VA Secretary visits Fort Harrison, listens to vets concerns
Alexie Aguayo
and last updated 2021-04-07 19:24:27-04
FORT HARRISON â Veterans Affairs Secretary Denis McDonough, along with Sen. Jon Tester, Sen. Steve Daines and Congressman Matt Rosendale hosted a roundtable discussion with nearly a dozen local veterans at Fort Harrison to hear veterans feedback about the VA Health Care System and other related topics.
One of the first topics was mental health care for vets, specifically treatment resistant depression.
âThirty-percent of people with depression won t respond to medication and they won t respond to therapists,â says Matt Kuntz, Executive Director of the National Alliance on Mental Illness of Montana. âWe need other kinds of treatment. When I was on a VA Commission and got them to do a data analysis of that. It was only 2,000 veterans in the VA system that received appropriate care for that, out of approximately 300,000 veterans that should have bee
HELENA, Mont. - Veterans Affairs Secretary Denis McDonough, Representative Matt Rosendale, and U.S. Senators Jon Tester and Steve Daines held a listening session at the Montana Army National Guard Headquarters Wednesday.
A release from Sen. Tester says he, his capacity as the new Chairman of the Senate Veteransâ Affairs Committee, brought McDonough to the Treasure State to meet firsthand with veterans, VA employees, Veterans Service Organizations, local health care providers, officials and members of the media on his first official trip as Cabinet Secretary.Â
Multiple listening sessions and VA facility tours were held this week in Billings, Bozeman and Butte.
HELENA (AP) â The Montana VA Health Care System has announced plans to open a $12 million primary care clinic at a medical center in Helena where veterans will remain in a single appointment room and each provider will come to them in a âone stop shopâ approach.
The 20,000-square-foot (1,800-square-meter) clinic at Fort Harrison VA Medical Center will serve about 5,000 veterans and provide primary care in one space designed around the integrated Patient Aligned Care Team model.
The announcement came a day after Veterans Affairs Secretary Denis McDonough announced a scheduled visit to Montana with Democratic Sen. Jon Tester this week. McDonough and Tester are expected to visit at least two VA facilities in the state.